"So God Made a Farmer"

[RCW]

I was born and raised on a small dairy farm. Many generations of lineage.

Family sold the cows when I was a young man. Property sold several years later. None of that 550 acres is in production agriculture anymore...

Several years ago, I posted here that I had heard the "So God Made a Farmer" verse.

Never heard it before. Didn't know its origination, etc.

Several OTT members gave me the source, etc. Some of them are farmers today.

Paul Harvey's speech to the FFA, Kansas City, Missouri, November 1978.

Just heard it again on RFDTV Classic Tractor Fever.

Powerful message. If anyone hasn't heard it, they need to.

While no longer a farmer, I remember those guys well. I live in another nearby rural/agricultural area, and share my community with those guys today.

We need God to keep making farmers.....and thank the ones we have.

(I wish I was smart enough to link an audio of it, but alas..... )

 

[Shawn T. W]

Here you go ... I miss Paul Harvey!

American Rhetoric: Paul Harvey -- So God Made A Farmer FFA Speech (transcript-audio)

Full text transcript and audio of Paul Harvey Farmer Speech to the FFA

www.americanrhetoric.com

 

[TheOldHokie]

I was born and raised on a small dairy farm. Many generations of lineage.

Family sold the cows when I was a young man. Property sold several years later. None of that 550 acres is in production agriculture anymore...

Several years ago, I posted here that I had heard the "So God Made a Farmer" verse.

Never heard it before. Didn't know its origination, etc.

Several OTT members gave me the source, etc. Some of them are farmers today.

Paul Harvey's speech to the FFA, Kansas City, Missouri, November 1978.

Just heard it again on RFDTV Classic Tractor Fever.

Powerful message. If anyone hasn't heard it, they need to.

While no longer a farmer, I remember those guys well. I live in another nearby rural/agricultural area, and share my community with those guys today.

We need God to keep making farmers.....and thank the ones we have.

(I wish I was smart enough to link an audio of it, but alas..... )

Now bulldozed to the ground and home to to a massive nat gas compressor station. Somebody got rich but it wasn't Grandpa and Grandma

Dan

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

I grew up on a ranch in Colorado, rode fence all summer and half the time over the fall winter and spring.
The ranch has long gone to track homes and a golf course, all the range land has gone to Ski resorts and an airport.

 

[skeets]

And the government and big business is doing their lever best to destroy the American farmer